PHP 7.3 was released yesterday and the relevant brew formulas were made available today so a quick merging of these changes to support [email protected] would be greatly appreciated @philcook 🙂

Hi, after this whole "homebrew-php" migration debacle, I can't install this formula.

Here is my output:

→ brew install brew-php-switcher
Error: No available formula with the name "brew-php-switcher"
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Warning: homebrew/core is shallow clone. To get complete history run:
  git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow

Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
==> Searching local taps...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

Any ideas?

It seems like the libphp7.so will now be found at /usr/local/opt/php72/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so (see Homebrew/homebrew-core#25018).

Is brew-php-switcher ready for this?

→ brew-php-switcher 71 
Switching to php71
Switching your shell
Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/5.6.36... 0 symlinks removed
Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.1.17... 0 symlinks removed
Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/php/7.2.5... 0 symlinks removed
Warning: [email protected] is keg-only and must be linked with --force
Note that doing so can interfere with building software.

If you need to have this software first in your PATH instead consider running:
  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
You will need sudo power from now on
Switching your apache conf
Restarting apache
All done!


# phx at phx.local in ~ [15:07:53]
→ php --version
PHP 5.6.30 (cli) (built: Oct 29 2017 20:30:32)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies

I am having issues on switching php @ 7.1 with brew-php-switcher, I have Mojave. Below is the output i get.

Your system is ready to brew.

brew-php-switcher 7.1

Switching to [email protected]
Switching your shell
Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.1.24_2... 0 symlinks removed
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.1.24_2...
Error: Could not symlink bin/pear
Target /usr/local/bin/pear
is a symlink belonging to php. You can unlink it:
  brew unlink php

To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
  brew link --overwrite [email protected]

To list all files that would be deleted:
  brew link --overwrite --dry-run [email protected]
You will need sudo power from now on
Switching your apache conf
Password:
Restarting apache
All done!```

``` php -v
PHP 7.2.12 (cli) (built: Nov 29 2018 00:54:39) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.2.12, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies```

Homebrew decided to change the way that they manage PHP. It has some big differences, especially in the package names.

See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-php/issues/4721

I've been running PHP 5.6 (yes, I know it's way deprecated, but it's the version I must use for my day job)

brew install brew-php-switcher This appears to have run brew update.. or at least updated my PHP 7.x install... I believe this in turn updated a "icu4c" dependency

When running PHP 5.6 I now get:

php -v
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.62.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/php
  Reason: image not found

here's the fix: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56242725/1371433

However if I now brew-php-switcher 7.3

php -v
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.64.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/php
  Reason: image not found

PHP 5.6 requires icu4c 62.1 and PHP 7.3 requires icu4c 64.2 there seems to be no easy way to switch between the two..

supposedly brew switch icu4c 64.2 should work, but I get a "not in cellar" error

The only fix seems to be to reinstall icu4c

62.1: brew reinstall https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/575eb4bbef683551e19f329f60456b13a558132f/Formula/icu4c.rb 64.2: brew reinstall https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/master/Formula/icu4c.rb (I'm not sure how to find the direct link for 64.2.. It's likely that link will point to a newer ver in the future)

Anyone know how to get brew-php-switcher to also switch/update this dependency?

Hi, just a quick take on mentioned task. Please review it, it has been ages since I have done any scripting in bash.

Two things to mention:

• I thought about naming convention for php7x. Even though it's still beta, I went on with current conversion and didn't do anything like 70b or similar.
• As for php7x apache module name and key for httpd.conf got changed, I needed some conditional logic.

Also, I noticed there is something broken with substitution of LoadModule php5_module ... in httpd.conf in HEAD. It's not related to my changes. I didn't change any logic except naming, but I will revisit the matter later.

While I’ve been given contributor permissions, this repository requires at least one approval in order to merge PRs, so with the only other contributor being largely inactive, improvements by myself are basically impossible. I’d like to help support some of the issues reported here, but it’s almost impossible. Would the community support me forking this repository and updating the Brew formula accordingly to use the fork?

Hello repository maintainer!

PHP 7.3 is going to release soon and Release Candidate versions are now available on php.net, How can we switch to this version?

Thanks indeed

→ brew install brew-php-switcher
Error: No available formula with the name "brew-php-switcher"
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Warning: homebrew/core is shallow clone. To get complete history run:
  git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow

Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
==> Searching local taps...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

Then I tried:

→ git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow
fatal: dumb http transport does not support shallow capabilities

Thanks for building this great brew package.

I have used it for switching between php 7.4 and php 8.1 in the terminal. It works great.

But it does not modify the apache httpd config file for the chosen php version.

I am on Mac (M1 Max).

Please advice.

Warning: You are using macOS 10.15. We do not provide support for this pre-release version. You will encounter build failures with some formulae. Please create pull requests instead of asking for help on Homebrew's GitHub, Discourse, Twitter or IRC. You are responsible for resolving any issues you experience, as you are running this pre-release version.

I have a problem where I have PHP 5.6 and 7.1 installed along with the Brew httpd server, but only PHP 5.6 will allow the httpd server to start.

If I run brew-php-switcher -s 56 and manually swap the httpd.conf file to load PHP 56, apache starts and all is right with the world.

If I do the same with 71, apache will not start and I will see: [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 78837] AH00173: SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart [core:notice] [pid 78837] AH00060: seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the parent process

in the error logs. Any further attempts to start apache manually through apachectl will not show anything new in the log file. The only difference between the httpd.conf files is:

LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/Cellar/php56/5.6.33_9/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so vs LoadModule php7_module /usr/local/Cellar/php71/7.1.14_25/libexec/apache2/libphp7.so

If I swap back to 56, apache starts just fine. I can manually run

brew unlink (56|71) brew link (71|56) cp httpd.conf.(71|56) httpd.conf sudo apachectl restart

and get the same result. Any clues as to what might be wrong here?

Both php56 and php71 were installed with the --with-httpd flags Now that I've installed the Brew apache server, the default High Sierra apache server has decided it doesn't want to run anymore.

Trying this project out today to see if it will work for me switching between PHP versions. However, I use Valet and find that I need to specify -c=valet to make sure Valet is restarted.

Is there a reason for this? If not, if I provided a way to either make restarting Valet happen by default or by some other means (env config values, etc) would that be accepted?